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InvestigationSelling off the illegally extracted data

After four months of investigation, the police arrested the 20 Apple employees after seizing their "criminal tools" and dismantling their online network.

They were arrested across more than four regions, including Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian.

For selling off the stolen data, the Apple employees used to charge between 10 Yuan ($1.50) and 180 Yuan ($26.50) for pieces of the illegally gathered data.

Privacy scandal in Australia

This is not the first time data stealing is happening in China. In 2016, four Apple employees in Australia were fired following accusations of sharing "private" images from users' phones and rating them out of 10.

Cybersecurity LawChina's fresh controversial cybersecurity law

Experts say the sale of users' personal information in China is hardly a shocking development.

On 1 June, China implemented a "controversial" cybersecurity law, which the tech giants and large businesses operating there believe gives the domestic companies an unfair competitive advantage and help officials steal trade secrets from foreign firms.

Experts labeled the law as "extremely vague and exceptionally wide in scope."

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Black market for private data. Scary!

In Dec'16, the South Metropolis Daily newspaper exposed the black market for personal information gathered from government and police databases. In exchange for 700 Yuan ($100), its reporters successfully obtained information on a colleague, including property holdings, hotel checkouts, and flight history.